Connecticut western news., 1887-05-04
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The English Liberal Unionists are in favor of making the Crimes act permanent meas ure.
 The Saginaw (NIich.) Court House has been burned. The records were saved. Loss S12,OOO.
 Sharp Smith and his older children went to work in the field in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, leaving three children in the house, not far distant The building caught fire and tho children were all burned to death. Two years ago the mother of the children was killed in tornado, which blew the house down.
 The Boston blaming mill owners have adopted new schedule of prices which is prac- tically an advance of g per cent.
 Mrs. Douglas Taylor, of Eau Claire, Mich., has recovered verdict of &, 1875 against sa- loon keeper for selling liquor to her husband
 The Colorado State Sanitary Board has de- cided to quarantine against Iowa. against the Omaha stock yards, and against the Kansas City stock yards. This will compel cattle from these points to undergo inspection be- fore being admitted into the State. Pleuro- pneumonia exists among cattle at all the places mentioned
 Michael Neyes, alias William Vochtel. who embedded S,117 marks while postmaster at Morback, Germany, has been arrested in Chi cago. t-
 At the first straight party division in the new Canadian House of Commons, the Govern ment majority Was g.
 Orders have been given by the Navy De rartment to tho ordnance shops at the Wash ington Navy Yard to begin immediately the construction of another ten-inch breech-load- ing rifed gun for the Boston. The two ten inch guns now building at the Navy Yard are we'll on toward completion.
 Col. Hughes Hallett, member of Parlia- ment, entertained Buffalo Bill.
 Mrs. Hannah Burnett, the last survivor of those ill Fort Harrison when attacked Ky the Indians, died at Terre Haute, Ind.
 At a mass meeting at the State House at Springfield, Ill.,, resolutions indorsing Glad stone, Parnell and Home Rule were unani- mously adopted.
 The Corporation Court of Petersburg Va., decided in the cases of forty or more mer- chants who rendered coupons in payment of licenses to carry on business, that the cou- pons were genuine and legally receivable for all taxes, debts, and demands due the Con- monwealth of Virginia.
 Abe Lttlejohn, well-to-do white farmer near Clinton, Ala, and his wife were murder ed and their bodies burned in their dwelling.
 Felix Griffin, notorious Indian Territory outlaw and leader of an organized gang of horse thieves, was killed while stealing a horse.
 Joseph A. Gamble, a notorious moonslincr and desperado of Pike county, Ark, who Ina; long eluled the authorities and been terror to the community, has been captured.
 The Russian Government has decided to recall Count Schouvaloff, the Russian Ambas- sador to Germany.
 The 15-year-old son of the widow Bacher, living near Upper Sandusky, O., who was aroused by tramp trying to force an entrance to the house, seized shot gun and blew the intruder's head off.
 A terrific wind storm demolished four new frame cottages in the town of Lake, near Chicago, and under the debris two workmen were crushed to death. Owing to the damp nature of the ground the buildings had been erected on stilts seven feet high. When the wind came the blast sent one of the cottages plunging against its neighbor, which in turn fell over against the third, and then the third against the fourth.' A fifth house, full of wo men and children, had one wall demolished, but none of the inmates ere hurt.
 A skirmish has taken place at Darrass be- tween body of Arabs and force of Egyp- tians under command or Major Chermside The Arabs lost POO killed and wounded, and the Egyptians 40 wounded.
 Charles Pilpaugh, farmer of Grafton, Wis, was found murdered in his house re- gently. The house was completely upset, and everything ransacked. The murdered man lived alone, and was supposed to have money.
 A saloon has been opened at West Fair view, Pa., on petition of the women who ob- jected to have their husbands walk to Harris burgh, two miles away, for their inspiration. It is rumored that company of Boston capitalists with capital of $500, 900 will pur- chase the Crowinshield property at Newport, R. l., erect buildings and improve the lands. The Interstate Law In Iowa.